Quotes About Integrity

Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success.

There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.

True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.

It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.

Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.

Every shortcut has a price usually greater than the reward.

You can know something is a lie when it has no love in it.

Pride is holding your head up high when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.

Life, in that it is life, necessarily entails justice.

The true test of a man's character is not how much he has, but how much he is willing to give.

I never mind choler in a man if he have also honesty and good sense.

The true test of a man's character is how he behaves when no one is watching.

Honest intention will not cure faulty practice.

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.

I know the goddam trouble with me, I thought. Enough brains to see it and not enough guts to stand up to it. Thousands of us, millions of us, corrupted, rootless, career-ridden, good hearts and yellow bellies, living out our lives for the easy buck, the soft berth, indulging ourselves in the illusion that we can deal in filth without becoming the thing we touch.

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows

However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you, If you do not act upon them?

Honesty is a very expensive gift; don't expect it from cheap people.

You can't make a good deal with a bad person.

People will always try to stop you doing the right thing if it is unconventional.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.

The limits of trust depend much on whether you mean to do business more than once.